Book Choices

Flights of Fantasy Book List

6th, 7th and 8th Grades

Your book choices are below. Check 'em out and decide what you want our next book to be and we will vote again on March 20th for our last book of the year. Flights of Fantasy will not meet during the months of May and June.

	Stravaganza: City of Masks/Hoffman $12 Cancer is a horrible disease. It exhausts the body, mind and spirit of it's victims. Lucien knows from personal experience...he has leukemia. One day his father give him a rather mysterious gift...a beautiful handmade Italian journal. It intrigues Lucien as he falls asleep clutching it. When he wakes, his world is completely different. He finds himself in a place very much like Venice, Italy called Bellezza. He is taken in by Rodolpho who tells him that he's not dreaming but he's a Stravagante and capable of traveling between his home in present-day England, where he lies dying, and Bellezza where he is healthy and life is exciting. There will come a time, however, when he will be forced to live in one world or the other and the choice may not be his to make.
	Game of Sunken Places/Anderson $6.00 It was a strange, old fashioned invitation that the boys receive. Stranger still is their arrival at the mansion of Gregory's uncle, Max. Brian and Gregory are instructed to change for dinner but not into any of the clothes they brought with them. Instead, Uncle Max has them wear clothing from the Victorian era, complete with starched white collars and knickerbockers. The strangeness does not stop there. Soon they are drawn into a bazaar game where trolls are real and answers to riddles can either save your life or take it. They don't know what the rules are or that the stakes are life and death or even who their opponents are. The boys must use all their wits and a good deal of humor to get through the sometimes traumatic events in the game, the conclusion of which catches both of them by surprise.
	The Bone Magician/Higgins $9.00 It is a dark and fowl city in which Pin lives. His mother is dead and his father has gone missing after being accused of killing Pin's uncle. Pin, himself, works for an undertaker watching dead bodies to be sure they stay dead. One fateful night Pin is working when he is suddenly overcome by an attacker. When he begins to come around, he witnesses an astonishing and impossible sight...the body he'd been sure was dead sitting up and saying good-by to her grieving fiance! These aren't the only strange goings on in the town of Urbs Umida and Pin soon finds himself smack in the middle of them all and perhaps even the next victim of the Silver Apple Killer whose victims are tossed into the smelly river with a silver-painted apple in their pockets. Will Pin be able to clear his father's name and uncover the person responsible for so many deaths?
	Gregor the Overlander/Collins $7.00 Deep under the streets of New York is another world. A world of darkness, danger, and giant creatures; cockroaches so big that a 2-year-old can ride them like horses; rats large enough to kill a human; bats that carry humans into battle and all of the creatures speak to one another! This is the world into which Gregor and his little sister have fallen via the airshaft in their laundry room. They are brought to Regalia, the human city in the Underland. They believe that he is their champion, according to an ancient prophesy, who will tilt the balance in the coming war with the rats. All he wants to do is get his sister, Boots, and himself back home in one piece. This begins the adventures of Gregor which continue in Gregor and the Prophesy of Bane in which Gregor's character, strength and integrity are challenged in every way possible.
	Pillage/Skye $12 Could things possibly get worse for Beck Phillips? Well, yes, actually. After his mother dies, he is sent to live with an uncle he didn't eve know about. This uncle, Aeron Phillips, is a recluse who lives in the attic under a huge dome. There are many rules in the manor; don't try to unlock locked doors; don't try to locate the basement that isn't there; don't go into the back yard; stay away from neighbor boy Milo. Well all these "don'ts" just make Beck want to do them more. In the back yard, for instance, he finds a conservatory whose doors have been bricked in so that it's completely walled away. One day, Beck discovers a strange ability; he wants, very badly, to get inside of the wall and wishes that the ivy would grow up and over so he could climb it...and it does, right before his eyes! Once he gets inside, however, the things he discovers will change his life and the world around him, forever.